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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:18 -0400
From:      Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XEN 5.5.0 and clflush
Message-ID:  <20090922171918.GA86010@gta.com>
In-Reply-To: <5078471e0909221003g43a125f4s99a1f841616bb184@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20090922123401.GB29391@gta.com> <20090922131034.GV47688@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <5078471e0909221003g43a125f4s99a1f841616bb184@mail.gmail.com>

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> > I think I will have to disable CLFLUSH support for intel CPUs when
> > self-snoop
> > is not reported.
> >
> >
> That's the kinda weird part about this though... It's not triggering an
> Invalid Instruction, but a GPF. Looking at AMD's description of how CLFLUSH
> is supposed to work, I don't see why it's faulting with what looks like a
> valid address.
> 
> While this is probably far outside the scope of what their entry-level
> support techs will understand, I can try raising this as a bug with Citrix
> under our support contract if you're confident that this is broken on Xen's
> end.
I keep wondering about comments having to do with AMD processor.  The
native processor is an an Intel Xeon.  Is this piece of the puzzle
important?

Larry

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